Posted on 09/06/2021 12:11:57 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
It's the unofficial end of summer.
Let's have a bit of fun in the midst of all the turmoil we have had this year and the turmoil upcoming with kids returning to school in masks or whatever other bizarre whatnot comes up.
Give a shout out to fellow Freepers whose screennames, taglines, and/or "About" pages you have enjoyed, laughed at, drawn inspiration from, or found thought-provoking.
He was my best friend and I’m lost without him.
{{{hug}}} I lost my longtime BFF last year too. You have my sincere condolences.
I remember that.
I understand how you feel.
:(
Nice memories.
Not so much the name, but I always found Mother Abigal’s posts interesting. Focused on pandemics, Ebola, H1N1, etc. Too bad she isn’t around anymore for our current one.
Found the following FR link for a series of interviews of Mother Abigal (MA) from 2009 during the H1N1 flu. The thread is very confusing - not sure the author/interviewer new how FR worked or what. But you can muddle through it if one is so inclined.
On post 32 is the following that is very appropriate today as well:
MA: ....
It is another aspect of vaccines that I would like to make you aware of and especially with the coming flu season.
Q [Questioner]: And what is that?
MA: It is a phenomena called antibody-dependent enhancement.
As we discussed this winter the majority of viral infections of animals and man are not fatal, but are followed by recovery and the development of a state of relative or absolute resistance against re-infection with the same virus.
Much of this resistance can be attributed to specific antiviral antibodies, although cellular immune mechanisms also contribute to the protection of the host.
However not all antiviral antibodies are necessarily virus neutralizing antibodies - in addition to these virus neutralizing antibodies or non-neutralizing antibodies a further group of antibodies exist: antibodies which enhance the infectivity of the virus.
This phenomenon is known as antibody-dependent-enhancement (ADE) of viral infectivity and has been observed with various macrophage-infecting viruses.
The common features of viruses exhibiting ADE are:
1. preferential replication in macrophages
2. ability to establish persistence
3. and antigenic diversity
Q: That’s odd. How does it work?
MA: ADE occurs when the host is more efficiently infected by a combination of virus plus antibody than by the virus alone.
Can you see that?
Q: Yea, I guess. But it seems strange that an antibody would aid the virus in infection.
MA: Child, nothing in the world of Virology is strange. Let’s go back to our favorite subject the HIV virus for a moment.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2820204/posts
Oops! Above is the link to the Mother Abigal interviews.
This is an interesting post. Thanks.
I was not that into FR back then and only took infrequent peeks.
Perhaps I will try to work this into a vanity or make it part of my next “Flatten” post.
I just saw this phrase. Strikes me as a good tagline candidate.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3992940/posts?page=41#41
Build back better = Destroy the Republic in less than a year.
Probably should edit it a bit.
Build Back Better = Destroy the Republic
Xiden is getting this done in mere Months. Actually, it happened as soon as the DEMONCRATS stole the 2020 Election.
Reminds me of when Al Qaeda were holding GI Joe hostage
Web Site Claims GI Captured in Iraq
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1333608/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1334253/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1336715/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1333888/posts
Can you provide the link please?
It doesn’t seem to have “come through.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2820204/posts
Yeah - I forgot to include the link to the Mother Abigal (MA) link. It takes some work to get into the writing style. Some background might help:
MA started posting about viruses (Ebola first??) on FR. The interviewer claims it was one of the first times that anyone had posted about viruses in “real time” as events were happening around the globe.
Later on it was surmised that she worked for the CDC at the time so had that information. She also included a lot of spiritual stuff and philosophy.
He asked her why she chose FR to post rather than a medical site or whatever. Turns out she had some slow computer and the other sites had ads and stuff and were too slow! FR didn’t and was the easiest to work with!!
I still find that to be true! So much easier to figure out who is writing to whom on FR and to be able to follow the conversation!!
I just saw this phrase. Strikes me as a good tagline candidate.
Everyone must get the shot. Which tells you that it’s not about a virus; it’s never been about a virus.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3993905/posts?page=11#11
:)
We are into the back half of the 16 year plan to destroy America...delayed four years by Trump.
Here’s a good tagline I saw
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3994997/posts?page=24#24
Politics’ is a compound word:
Poly= many, Tics’= blood sucking parasites.
Here’s another good tagline candidate I ran across.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3995255/posts?page=49#49
Our adversaries have the biggest green light in our nation’s
history.
Gotsha...
another good tagline candidate
MAGA peeps are a minority and a now hunted one at that.
another good tagline candidate
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3996264/posts?page=29#29
“Question Authority” has morphed into “Obey Authority”.
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